US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on June 30 for "Exchanging of a programmable logic controller" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,792, issued on June 30, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Exchanging of a programmable logic controller" was invented by Maximilian Martin (Buttenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for exchanging a first programmable logic controller which performs a control function by running through a process cycle including multiple successive process steps. Provision is made for the first programmable logic controller and a further programmable logic controller as network subscribers of a network. Data are transferred between network subscribers of the network in accordance with a communication cycle...